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Primitive and ancient legal institutions

Primitive and ancient legal institutions

Kocourek, Albert

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Fiction AnthologiesGeneral LawGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 938924790X
ISBN13: 9789389247909
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 29 2019
Pages: 720
Weight: 1.98
Height: 1.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Before codes and courts, there were oaths, taboos, and bargains. Albert Kocourek follows the first legal instincts of communities and shows how they hardened into rules that still shape us. Law begins in ritualised need. Primitive and Ancient Legal Institutions is a sharp legal history monograph and a readable comparative law treatise, tracing ancient legal institutions across early societies and the wider ancient Mediterranean law world. With a jurist's eye for pattern and a storyteller's sense of human pressure, Kocourek explores primitive law systems, the origins of customary law, and the slow emergence of authority, property, family obligation, and punishment. The result serves both as a law school reference and a stimulating guide for anyone curious about how everyday conflict became enforceable order. A classic of the history of jurisprudence, this work belongs with the enduring ancient law classics that helped define modern legal history research. It speaks directly to readers of ancient Rome legal history while widening the lens to cross-cultural comparison and the shared problems that ancient peoples solved in strikingly different ways. For collectors, its lucid scholarship and period voice make it a shelf-worthy companion to other foundational studies, equally at home beside history, anthropology, and the classics in any library. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike, and an ideal public domain ebook to keep, cite, and return to.

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